In 1892, a school building was erected in Staten Island's neighborhood of Great Kills. The building, which housed students of Public School 8, was given many additions at the turn of the twentieth century and it was designated as the Great Kills School in 1916. The following year, however, it was replaced by an entirely new school building.
Public School 8 is located at 112 Lindenwood Road. Its boundaries include School Street to the northwest, Lindenwood Road to the northeast, and Seely Lane to the southwest. For quite some time, the southeastern boundary for Public School 8 was an empty lot. That changed by the end of the century when the city developed a playground on the empty lot. The name of the school was also changed at that time from the…
garbage at the time. In an effort to clean up the Great Kills shoreline, a non-profit organization known as the Turnaround Friends was formed in 1994. The Turnaround Friends teamed up with the New York City Departments of Environmental Protection, Parks and Recreation, and Sanitation to perform a clean-up effort. The New York City Department of Parks and Recreation soon expanded the site to five acres and created Seaside Wildlife Nature Park, a waterfront park overlooking the Great Kills Harbor.
made up of a little less than three acres of land. This open area was bounded by the streets of Ainsworth Avenue to the west, Greencroft Avenue to the south, and Redgrave Avenue to the east-P.S. 53 being its northern boundary.
